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From: Andy Lo A Foe <arloafoe@cs.vu.nl>
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Brendan Bartlett wrote:

>  I am using a BT848 frame grabber card under linux and I'm not getting any
> sound with the ALSA drivers.  Most probably because the bt848 code wants
> to talk to low-level OSS drivers.  (modprobe msp3400 [the stereo module]
> loads sound.o and sound.o.  Even with snd-pcm1-oss.o loaded, I get no
> sound).
>
>  Has this been ported over to ALSA, or is anyone actively porting it right
> now?  If not, I guess I can do it.  Just let me know the API for ALSA and
> I can figure out the rest.

If you're trying this with kernel 2.1.127 or higher, the curren bttv driver
(0.5.19) is broken for these kernels, specifically the msp3400 module (same
problem ALSA had, scheduling code changed somewhat). An update of bttv should
be released soon I guess...

Andy

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